Wales's amazing youngsters grew up to claim their first away win in this Group Four qualifier. John Toshack had been shorn of 10 senior players for this long trip to the shores of the Caspian Sea and he must have had doubts that his bunch of raw youngsters could handle an occasion like this.

The Wolves midfielder David Edwards scored what proved to be the winner in the first half and from then on he and his team-mates battled for every inch to produce a victory. There were only 79 Wales fans in this stadium and, having had their tickets given to them free by the Football Association of Wales, they must have loved every minute.

Toshack said: "There was so much to be satisfied with. Considering the problems we have had building up to this game, it was a very pleasing performance and result.

"We were missing so many players and some of the lads who played have been out of training virtually for five weeks. There are a lot of better sides than us who have had a lot of trouble in Baku.

"We had a small handful of fans here who had paid a lot of money to follow us, and they deserved a result like this. I was more than happy to celebrate with them at the end. The team have done them proud."